Liberating One's Self: Healing and Helping Others Do the Same So that Together, We Can Reach Our Highest Potential
“I wanted to show that in Africa, people are living everyday lives and that africans are ingenious, creative … that there are all kinds of people that live there just the way we would live anywhere else. I wanted to normalize that, to show people this kind of living. And I think the best way to get the most authentic experience was to go by foot, because then, you have to meet every single body.” http://www.mariorigby.com/africa.html
All I really wanted to do was to experience what it’s like to live in Africa. And not just a country in Africa, but throughout the whole continent. That was my main purpose. https://adventure.com/mario-rigby-crossing-africa-interview/?fbclid=IwAR0Im-_WT1B1Nzw5HD9ViIwMKmZEZlTyiiErBkUn4dNHmkr7PK3zydYylNw
excerpt ~One type included a bellows system fashioned from leather, clay or wood that was designed to preheat air, which Joyce says was developed in Africa “long before European and American equivalents were invented that eventually ushered in the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.” By Roger Catlin l smithsonianmag.com l May 3, 2019 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-blacksmiths-forged-powerful-status-across-continent-africa-180972065/?fbclid=IwAR2l0EnCYeQ_yP77mcGn78TfBtxXA3RKsya6I5xBSr94JvR8C2CxDWyTBYk